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Re: How to deactivate mark?
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Harald Hanche-Olsen |
Subject: |
Re: How to deactivate mark? |
Date: |
Tue, 04 May 2010 15:44:10 -0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (darwin) |
+ Uday S Reddy <uDOTsDOTreddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>:
> I tried to define a command called narrow-to-defun as follows:
>
> (defun narrow-to-defun ()
> "Narrow to the current defun around point"
> (interactive)
> (mark-defun)
> (narrow-to-region (point) (mark))
> )
>
> Unfortunately, running the command makes the mark "active," thereby
> highlighting the defun at the end of the execution. I have tried
> various tricks to get the mark to turn off - like calling
> deactivate-mark, binding deactivate-mark to t locally, binding
> transient-mark-mode to nil etc. But none of them is able to turn off
> the active mark at the end.
>
> What am I missing?
Adding (deactivate-mark) to the end of your definition works for me. Did
you forget to evaluate the defun after adding this bit? (I forget it all
the time.)
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* Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
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